The head coach looked on in despair as his side suffered another day to forget in Paris as the Irish were crowned northern hemisphere champions.
Just 18 months before the World Cup in Japan, the team which had got used to winning has had to take two worrying losses on the chin.
The result sparked off title celebrations in Ireland and the men in green will now arrive at Twickenham in six days with a Grand Slam party on their minds.
Captain Owen Farrell said: “We were not able to build consistent pressure and our discipline has to be better. “We needed to be more clinical. We had a couple of... read more

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